It appears that a convict had escaped and was subsequently recaptured on the 24th Instant. On the 25th, I had him brought before me at Government House, in the presence of Mr. Deane, Inspector Daly, the Portuguese Consul, and the Superintendent of the Macao Police. I instituted an inquiry into the case, and having clearly satisfied myself that the prisoner had been regularly convicted at Macao of murder, and that there was no doubt as to his identity - a fact not disputed by the prisoner himself - I directed him to be given over to the Macao Authorities, and he was conveyed to Macao the same day.
R.G.M.D.
(True Copies)
(signed) R.G. M.D.
Acting Magistrate
for the Colonial Secretary
26th July 1869
Filed
Foreign Office
2 Nov
Gogstong
758.10248
1511682-19
17/9 Holland 17
A
758
452
21 Jo
Forwarded for the consideration of the Earl of Clarendon, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong, enclosing a draft of an Ordinance to provide for the Extradition of Fugitives from Justice when claimed by the authorities at Macao.
Copy 18.6.1869